Confederate Powder Works
Powder works, Augusta, Georgia.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Powder works
- Where
- Augusta, Georgia
- Years
- 1862-1865
- Today
- Ruins
CONFEDERATE POWDER WORKS
George Washington Rains built the works on the Augusta Canal. It made almost 3 million pounds of gunpowder during the war, about 3.5 tons a day, a majority of the powder the Confederacy used. The works were seized and dismantled after the war.
Then
George Washington Rains built the works on the Augusta Canal, and it made almost 3 million pounds of gunpowder during the war. It turned out about 3.5 tons a day, a majority of the powder the Confederacy used.
The works ran until 1865 and were seized and dismantled after the war.
Now
Ruins
The 150-foot obelisk chimney still stands beside the Sibley Mill, built in 1880 to 1882 with bricks from the demolished works.
Track in service today runs beside the site, on a line owned by CSX.
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